Frankenstein Conquers the World – 1965
The scene: Toho Studios, 1964 Producer: We need a new monster movie. What have you got? Giant bee? Giant crab? Giant bee-crab hybrid? Writer: I
Steampunk, Frankenstein, Fantasy soap operas, Leonard Nimoy and More
The scene: Toho Studios, 1964 Producer: We need a new monster movie. What have you got? Giant bee? Giant crab? Giant bee-crab hybrid? Writer: I
This is going to be a short review of a strange movie. It’s the first ever film version of Mary Shelley’s novel and it’s… special.
“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner
When I was a boy, I got a couple of books about the Universal Monsters out from my local library, and they were both scathing
The House of Dracula is the Seventh Universal Studios Frankenstein movie, their forth Wolf Man movie and either their third or fifth Dracula, depending on
This is a dull movie and kind of pointless, and yet its historical importance is undeniable. The central idea — taking two successful characters from
Obviously not a Frankenstein movie as such, the Cabinet of Dr Caligari is a classic silent film that has cast a long shadow across the
“A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect more hideous
“His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein “You loved your Creature so long as it
“My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from